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Life Along the River

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TRADE
(image) Detail from a larger painting showing a walled Mississippian village with dozens of its citizens involved in various trade related activities.
 

The mound cities were in many ways like our own-alive with commerce, industry, and development. This scene of everyday life in Cahokia, a city in what is now Illinois, was likely a common one along the Mississippi and its tributaries just a few hundred years before Columbus waded ashore in the Caribbean. Illustration by Lloyd K. Townsend. Use prohibitied without permission.


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